diff --git a/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/element-deps b/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/element-deps
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c8922a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/element-deps
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pip-and-virtualenv
diff --git a/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/install.d/10-pip-packages b/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/install.d/10-pip-packages
index a8a0192..58bda17 100755
--- a/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/install.d/10-pip-packages
+++ b/nodepool/elements/zuul-worker/install.d/10-pip-packages
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ set -e
 # NOTE(pabelanger): This is to work around a bug in the zuul-jobs tox role, this
 # is because ensure-tox installs into ~/.local/bin however ansible doesn't
 # incude that within PATH by default.
-pip install tox
+$DIB_PYTHON_PIP install tox